21 comments to The most nauseating article I have ever read in the Guardian

I too had never heard of either of them before today. It was the persecutor congratulating his victim on his good fortune in having been improved that got to me, along with his assumption that it was compulsory for any gay person to forego a private life in order to further Moylan’s agenda.

At least the vermin who wrote for the “News of the Screws” knew they were vermin and did not demand congratulations for it.

Moylan pops up himself in the comments, saying “I never once remarked about what he did in his own home. However, when he takes his boyfriend out in public, then what he does is totally fair game” and other gems

Simon Jester,
Neil Clark’s article was much more evil than Moylan’s. However I found Moylan’s more nauseating, because of its self-congratulation and its oleaginous expressions of sympathy with Anderson Cooper.

It just baffles me. The article ends with this particularly flaming piece of OTT prose :

‘ . . .Today is a day that everyone who has ever had the courage to come out of the closet should be glad there is one more role model for all the gay children suffering through high school, that there is one more person to show all the mothers out there that having a gay child is a wonderful thing, that there is one more person to show that, no matter who you love, you can always have the courage to tell the truth.’

Funnily enough, that isn’t the heart-warming and soul-expanding message of liberation that I get. If I were that suffering gay child in high school, the message I would take away is that Teh Gayers are not to be trusted with your confidences and will reveal your private affairs to the world simply to further their own agendas and make good ‘copy’. Just look at the way that Moylan describes Cooper as ‘fair game’. This is supposed to be an expression of solidarity? Who’s the witch-hunter here?

And, please – ‘the courage to come out of the closet’? Spare me the purple prose. It’s been well-known for years that Anderson Cooper is gay. There are many terms for what he did, but ‘courage’ is hardly appropriate. In most of the Western world, being or coming ‘out’ is a huge yawn – there are no negative consequences and most people simply don’t care. Let’s see some serious and pointed discussion of the lives of Teh Gayers in Islamic countries – that would be ‘courage’.

The article is not so much nauseating as it furthers a particular stereotype – that of the drama queen, hyperventilating over insignificant trivialities. These matters are only important to a small minority who are dedicated to preserving a particular culture of victimhood at any cost. Mr Moylan reveals himself as a rather nasty, petty and self-absorbed jerk, with a highly over-inflated opinion of his own opinion. Fine sort of a role-model, there.

“the personal is political,” that your politics is defined by your personality. It may seem axiomatic and harmless, but it’s also about breaking down the barriers between the public and the private sphere. That’s the goal of Marxism, economic and cultural – to demolish what makes us independent individuals and plug us all into categories and subgroups that make us part of the grand socialist project. Mr Moylan doesn’t look at Anderson Cooper and see an individual trying to lead his own life the way he wants. He sees someone who is letting the side down by refusing to join the political parade.

Color me cynical, but I think Star Jones had it right when she said Anderson Cooper’s outing is an attempt to generate ratings for his TV show, Anderson Cooper 360. It’s a bit like Oprah revealing she smoked crack and was pregnant at age 14.

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